DZone

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The service mesh has become popular lately, and many organizations seem to jump on the bandwagon. Promising enhanced observability, seamless microservice management, and impeccable communication, service mesh has become the talk of the town. But before you join the frenzy, it’s crucial to pause and reflect on whether your specific use case truly demands the adoption of a service mesh.

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Architecture Technology Technology 247

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Sometimes, there is a need to update the table and index statistics manually using the ANALYZE TABLE command. Without going further into the reasons for such a need, I wanted to refresh this subject in terms of overhead related to running the command on production systems. However, the overhead discussed here is unrelated to the usual cost of diving into table rows to gather statistics, which we can control by setting the number of sample pages.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Prometheus and Grafana are two big names in the open-source world of observability. Both are widely liked and used, with vibrant, opinionated communities, and they routinely build on top of each other. So, how do Prometheus and Grafan stack up against each other?

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Open Source 141

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Namespaces in Kubernetes provide a way to isolate groups of resources within a single cluster. They are useful in multi-tenant environments with a few to tens of users and teams. They also allow dividing cluster resources between these users through quotas. Percona Operators come with cluster-wide and namespace-scope deployments. When you have a multi-namespace Kubernetes cluster, it poses a question of which way to use it.

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Database Availability Strategy Infrastructure 83

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2021 and updated in November of 2023. As businesses and applications increasingly rely on MySQL databases to manage their critical data, ensuring data reliability and availability becomes paramount. In this age of digital information, robust backup and recovery strategies are the pillars on which the stability of applications stands.

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 79

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August of 2021 and updated in November of 2023. Following the series of blogs written with the intention to describe basic operations matching Docker and open source databases, in this article, I will demonstrate how to proceed with installing MongoDB with Docker. The first one, written by Peter Zaitsev, was Installing MySQL with Docker.

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Scalability Best Practices Servers Database 61